CLIMAX MAKES DELICIOUS STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE 
family garden contains as the central feature 
of that garden a fine, thrifty strawberry patch, 
yielding almost without cost an abundance of 
the most delicious of the earth's products. 
But we are not satisfied yet, and never shall 
we be until all the people enjoy the blessings and 
privileges of a strawberry patch. Of course, if 
you live in an apartment house or a flat in some 
big city, the case appears hopeless — unless you 
have the courage to get down on the earth again. 
But no man who has a rood of good ground but 
should have his own strawberry patch. 
It is just as easy to grow your own straw- 
berries as it is to grow your own vegetables. 
Just try it for once and enjoy a real strawberry, 
ripe, rich, luscious, right fresh from your own 
vines, cultivated by your own hands. 'Twill be 
an event in your life, for money can't buy the 
kind you grow on your own vines. The very 
name "home-grown strawberries" makes every- 
body hungry, and why anybody having a garden 
should be without a goodly supply of this richest 
of all fruits is more than we can tell. 
Families that grow their own berries have 
them in season three times a day and between 
meals, and ip winter and through the long days 
of early spring, have them canned, jammed and 
preserved in myriad delicious ways, while those 
who declare it is too much trouble or too great 
a cost to grow them, have two or three little 
stingy messes a year. 
Now what is it going to be with you — just 
enough to say you have tasted strawberries, or all 
you can eat of the very choicest the whole year? 
Did we understand you to say that it was going 
to be all the big, rich juicy fellows you could 
hold from this time on? Well, thank you for 
the decision. Please send your order in early 
for the plants so we can reserve them for you 
and they can be shipped at the best time to set 
them out in your locality. 
No doubt there are some people who would 
like to have a family patch of strawberries but 
are in doubt as to the varieties that would best 
suit their particular situation as to soil, climate, 
etc. If you will simply send to us an estimate of 
the amount of money you wish to expend in 
plants, we shall be glad to make you a selection 
that will exactly fill your requirements. 
Testing Out Varieties For Yourself 
/^NE of the most interesting experiences alike 
to professional and amateur strawberry 
growers, is in conducting experiments with vari- 
ous varieties of plants. Not only is this a 
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